Chapter 4
Understanding negation in context
Presuppositions and implicatures
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Interpreting negation: Presupposition
- 4.2.1Conversational implicature
- 4.2.2Conventional implicature
- 4.2.3Pragmatic presupposition
- 4.2.4Conceptual practice as a presupposition trigger
- 4.2.5Negation, presupposition and ambiguity
- 4.3What is presupposed and by whom?
- 4.3.1Who expects
- 4.3.1.1Readers/hearers, ideal readers/hearers and expectations
- 4.3.1.2Speakers/writers and expectations
- 4.3.1.3Expectations or possibilities?
- 4.3.2What is expected?
- 4.3.3Sources of expectation
- 4.3.3.1Explicit expectations
- 4.3.3.2Implicit expectations
- 4.3.3.3Projected expectations
- 4.4Interpreting negation: Implicatures
- 4.4.1Levels of meaning
- 4.4.2Negation and implicatures
- 4.4.3Moeschler’s Relevance Theory approach
- 4.4.4Using Grice’s Cooperative principle and maxims to explain the role of negation in implicatures
- 4.4.4.1Interpreting negation and variable form
- 4.2.4.2Negation, implicatures and imperative structures
- 4.5The three inter-related features of negation: Presupposition, variable form and potential conversational implicatures
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